The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. When social worker Jules Martinez met one teen client, it seemed like the boy had given up: he’d dropped out of school, started selling drugs and stopped speaking with his mother. He’d been hospitalized multiple times for aggression...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Daily Herald. Many incarcerated Utahns still have a hard time getting their hands on addiction medication, even during the opioid epidemic. “It’s a feeling that is, I think, indescribable to most people who’ve not experienced (withdrawal). It feels like the...
The following story was supported by funding from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. On a typical afternoon in 2021, Kait Sorensen answered the phone at a rural Utah domestic violence shelter — and had...
The following was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. In a Feb. 15 committee hearing, Rep. Brady Brammer, R-Pleasant Grove, said HB328 was a common-sense approach to making sure asbestos lawsuits only truly target the guilty. The bill, Asbestos Litigation Amendments would require medical proof an individual...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Daily Herald and The Salt Lake Tribune. Saratoga Springs • On the worst days, Brittney Olsen remembers crawling into a closet to meet her son after school to hold him in her lap while he cried. The then-seventh grader, who...
The following story was reported by Cathy McKitrick of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project, in partnership with The Standard-Examiner, The Daily Herald, The Park Record and The Spectrum News. Companies of all stripes hoping to get in on the massive infusion of public dollars in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic were aggressive and fast...
The following story was written and reported by Eric S. Peterson and Jennifer Greenlee of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. For more than a decade, Intermountain Healthcare surgeons replaced or repaired damaged joints, muscles and tendons with medical devices from Arthrex, the leading supplier for sports medicine. Since...
The following story was written by Cathy McKitrick of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Park Record. During the first year of Utah’s medical cannabis program, several clinics sprouted to help patients get the required card that allows them to purchase products from the state’s seven dispensaries. But some worry that these...
The following story was written and reported by Taylor Hartman and Eric S. Peterson for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune, the Daily Herald and the Standard-Examiner. This series includes a piece more focused on Utah County that can be read at the Daily Herald’s site, as well as...
The following was written by Eric Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories. A recent Utah Stories article quoted from a public health expert with both expertise in essential oils and epidemiology to unpack some of the murky science around the health benefits of essential oil products. Below is a...